AWARD WINNING BOOKS - Maxwell Library · Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from a crocodile to an ostrich. 1981 Pic H175o The Ox-Cart Man. Donald Hall. (Viking)

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Table of Contents Caldecott Medal Winners………………………. 1 Newbery Medal Winners……………………….. 5 Coretta Scott King Award Winners…………. 9 Mildred Batchelder Award Winners……….. 11 Phoenix Award Winners………………………… 13 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Winners…….. 14

CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNERS The Caldecott Medal was established in 1938 and named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator

Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the previous year.

Location Call # Award Year

Pic K634t This is Not My Hat. John Klassen. (Candlewick Press) Grades K-2. A little fish thinks he can get away with stealing a hat.

2013

Pic R223b A Ball for Daisy. Chris Raschka. (Random House Children’s Books) Grades preschool-2. A gray and white puppy and her red ball are constant companions until a poodle inadvertently deflates the toy.

2012

Pic S7992s A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Philip C. Stead. (Roaring Brook Press) Grades preschool-1. The best sick day ever and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book.

2011

Pic P655l The Lion and the Mouse. Jerry Pinkney. (Little, Brown and Company) Grades preschool-1. A wordless retelling of the Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti.

2010

Pic S9728h The House in the Night. Susan Marie Swanson. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades preschool-1. Illustrations and easy text explore what makes a house in the night a home filled with light.

2009

Child Fic

S464i The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Brian Selznick. (Scholastic) Grades 4-7. Twelve-year-old Hugo is an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station.

2008

Pic W651f Flotsam. David Wiesner. (Clarion) Grades preschool-3. The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

2007

Child Fic

J96h The Hello, Goodbye Window. Chris Raschka. (Hyperion Books) Grades preschool-2. A little girl describes the magic kitchen window in her grandparents’ home.

2006

Pic H513k Kitten’s First Full Moon. Kevin Henkes. (Greenwillow) Grades preschool-1. Kitten mistakes the moon for her bowl of milk, and ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

2005

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AWARD WINNING BOOKS

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The Man who Walked Between the Towers. Mordicai Gerstein. Grades K-6. (Roaring Brook Press) Grades 1-6. A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

2004

Pic R738m My Friend Rabbit. Eric Rohmann. (Roaring Brook Press) Grades K-3. Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is a good friend.

2003

Pic W651t The Three Pigs. David Wiesner. Grades K-3. The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

2002

Child NonFic

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So you Want to be President? David Small. (Philomel Books) Grades 4-8. Presents an assortment of facts about qualifications and characteristics of U.S. Presidents.

2001

Child Fic

T112j Joseph had a Little Overcoat. Simms Taback. (Viking) Grades K-2. A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

2000

Child NonFic

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Snowflake Bentley. Jacqueline B. Martin. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades K-3. A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes.

1999

Child NonFic

398.21 Z69

Rapunzel. Paul O. Zelinsky. (Dutton) Grades K-3. A retelling of the familiar German folktale.

1998

Child NonFic

398.21 W815

Golem. David Wisniewski. (Clarion Books) Grades 1-5. A saintly Rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

1997

Child Fic

R234o Officer Buckle and Gloria. Peggy Rathmann. (G.P. Putnam’s) Grades K-4. Children always ignore Officer Buckle’s safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him.

1996

Child Fic

B942sn Smoky Night. Eve Bunting. (Harcourt Brace & Co.) Grades 1-4. When the Los Angeles riots break out, a boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others.

1995

Child Fic

S274g Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say. (Houghton Mifflin). Grades preschool-3. A Japanese-American man recounts his and his grandfather’s journey to America.

1994

Child Fic

M133m Mirette on the High Wire. Emily Arnold McCully. (G.P. Putnam) Grades K-3. Mirette learns tightroping from Monsieur Bellini, not knowing he is a celebrated tightrope artist.

1993

Pic W6515t Tuesday. David Wiesner. (Clarion Books) Grades K & up. Frogs rise on their lillypads, float through the air, and explore nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.

1992

Child Fic

M117b Black and White. David Macaulay. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades preschool-3. Four brief stories about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story?

1991

Child NonFic

398.2 Y71 Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China. Ed Young. (Philomel Books) Grades K-4. Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf.

1990

Child Fic

A182s Song and Dance Man. Karen Ackerman. (Knopf) Grades K-2. Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some songs and dances from his vaudeville days.

1989

Child Fic

Y54o Owl Moon. Jane Yolen. (Philomel) Grades preschool-1. On a winter’s night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

1988

Child Fic

Y595h Hey, Al. Arthur Yorinks. (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Grades K & up.A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported to an island in the sky by a colorful bird.

1987

Child Fic

V217p The Polar Express. Chris Van Allsburg. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 2 & up. A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa.

1986

Child NonFic

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Saint George and the Dragon. Margaret Hodges. (Little Brown) Grades K-4. George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside.

1985

Child NonFic

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The Glorious Flight. Alice Provensen. (Viking) Grades 3-5. A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in the early 1900s.

1984

Child Fic

C397s Shadow. Blaise Cendrars. (Scribner) Grades 2 and up. The shifting images of Shadow evoke ghosts of the past wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

1983

Child V217j Jumanji. Chris Van Allsburg. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 3 and up. Two bored and restless 1982

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Fic children find more than they bargained for with an adventure board game.

Child NonFic

398.2 L797

Fables. Arnold Lobel. (Harper & Row) Grades 1-4. Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from a crocodile to an ostrich.

1981

Pic H175o The Ox-Cart Man. Donald Hall. (Viking) Grades K-3. Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of a 19th century New England family.

1980

Child Fic

G575g The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Paul Goble. (Simon & Schuster) Grades K-3. Though she is fond of people, a girl prefers living among wild horses where she is truly happy.

1979

Pic R454n Noah’s Ark. Peter Spier. (Doubleday) Grades K-3. Retells in pictures how a pair of every creature climbed aboard the ark.

1978

Pic M987a Ashanti to Zulu. Margaret Musgrove. (Dial) Grades K-4. Explains traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z.

1977

Child NonFic

398.2 A113

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears. Verna Aardema. (Dial) Grades K-3. Reveals the meaning of the mosquito’s buzz.

1976

Child NonFic

398.2 M134

Arrow to the Sun. Gerald McDermott. (Viking) Grades 1 and up. An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth of the Lord of the Sun’s spirit being brought to man.

1975

Child NonFic

398.2 Z53d

Duffy and the Devil. Harve Zemach. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Grades K and up. The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her wins a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil’s name.

1974

Child NonFic

398.232 M898

The Funny Little Woman. Arlene Mosel. (Dutton) Grades K-4. While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures.

1973

Child Fic

H7167o One Fine Day. Nonny Hogrogian. (Macmillan) Grades K-3. An old woman cuts off a fox’s tale after he steals her milk, and he must go through a long series of transactions before she’ll sew it back on.

1972

Child NonFic

398.2 H168

A Story, A Story. Gail E. Haley. (Atheneum) Grades K-3. Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called ‘Spider Stories.’

1971

Pic S818 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. William Steig. (Windmill Books) Grades K-3. In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then cannot hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again.

1970

Child NonFic

398.21 R212f

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. Arthur Ransome. (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Grades K-3. When the Czar proclaims he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck.

1969

Pic E53 Drummer Hoff. Barbara Emberley. (Prentice Hall) Grades K-4. A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

1968

Child Fic

N463s Sam Bangs and Moonshine. Evaline Ness. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) Grades K-2. A little girl learns to tell the difference between make-believe and real life.

1967

Child NonFic

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Always Room for One More. Sorche Nic Leodhas. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) Grades K-2. In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room to invite one more person.

1966

Pic D431a May I Bring a Friend? Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. (Atheneum) Grades K-2. A well-mannered little boy has permission to bring animal friends to see the king and queen.

1965

Pic S474 Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak. (Harper & Row) Grade K and up. A naughty little boy, sent to bed without supper, sails to the land of the wild things.

1964

Child Fic

K25 The Snowy Day. Ezra Jack Keats. (Viking) Grades K-1. The adventures of a little boy in the city on a snowy day.

1963

Pic H675o Once a Mouse. Hitopadesa. (Scribner) Grades K-3. As it changes from mouse to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit’s pet also becomes increasingly vain.

1962

Child Fic

R635 Baboushka and the Three Kings. Ruth Robbins. (Parnassus) Grades K-3. Russian Orthodox iconography highlights the abstract illustrations in this story.

1961

Child Fic

E85n Nine Days to Christmas. Marie Hall Ets. (Viking). Grades K-3. Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, a Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select her first piñata.

1960

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Child Fic

C496 Chanticleer and the Fox. Geoffrey Chaucer. (Crowell) Grades K-3. A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.

1959

Child Fic

M127t Time of Wonder. Robert McCloskey. (Viking) Grades K-3. Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.

1958

Pic U21 A Tree is Nice. Janice May Udry. (Harper) Grades K-3. Briefly describes the value of a tree.

1957

Pic L285 Frog Went a-Courtin. John Langstaff. (Harcourt Brace) Grades K-3. Illustrates a folk song about the courtship and marriage of a frog and mouse.

1956

Child NonFic

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Cinderella. Marcia Joan Brown. (Scribner) Grades K-5. A traditional tale. Cinderella flees the palace but leaves a glass slipper behind.

1955

Pic B455mr Madeline’s Rescue. Ludwig Bemelmans. (Viking) Grades K-3. A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine and becomes a beloved pet.

1954

Pic W259 The Biggest Bear. Lynd Kendal Ward. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades K-3. Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin and returns with a small bundle of trouble.

1953

Pic W689f Finders Keepers. William Lipkind. (Harcourt Brace) Grades 1-4. The story of two dogs who go in search of someone to help solve a dispute over a bone.

1952

Child Fic

M644e The Egg Tree. Katherine Milhous. (Scribner) Grades 1-4. Katy’s Easter morning discover renews the tradition of the Easter egg tree.

1951

Child Fic

P769s Song of the Swallows. Leo Politi. (Scribner) Grade 1-4. The story of the friendship between a little boy and an old gardener at the Mission of San Juan Capistrano.

1950

Pic H128b The Big Snow. Berta Hader. (Macmillan) Grades 1-3. Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet.

1949

Child Fic

T799w White Snow, Bright Snow. Alvin R. Tresselt. (Lothrop) Grades K-3. When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard.

1948

Pic B879l The Little Island. Margaret Wise Brown. (Doubleday) Grades K-3. Depicts changes that occur on a small island as seasons come and go.

1947

Child NonFic

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The Rooster Crows. Maud Petersham. (Macmillan) Grades K-2. A collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping rhymes and jingles.

1946

Pic F455p Prayer for a Child. Rachel Lyman Field. (Macmillan) Grades K-1. An illustrated bedtime prayer that gives thanks for many aspects of a child’s world.

1945

Child Fic

T536 Many Moons. James Thurber. (Harcourt) Grades 3-7. Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore’s one wish.

1944

Pic B974l The Little House. Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton Mifflin) Grades K-3. A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

1943

Pic M47737m Make Way for Ducklings. Robert McCloskey (Viking) Grades 1-3. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

1942

Pic L425t They were Strong and Good. Robert Lawson (Viking) Grades 4-6. Relates the story of the author’s parents and grandparents

1941

Child NonFic

921 L736d Abraham Lincoln. Ingri D’Aulaire. (Doubleday) Grades K-4. Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier.

1940

Pic H236m Mei Li.Thomas Handforth. (Doubleday) Grades K-3. After spending an eventful day at the fair on New Year’s Eve, Mei Li arrives home just in time to greet the Kitchen God.

1939

Child NonFic

220 L353 Animals of the Bible. Dorothy Pulis Lathrop. (Lippincott) Grades K and up. The story presents the most memorable animals of the Old and New Testaments.

1938

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS

The Newbery Medal, established in 1922, was named for the 18th century British bookseller, John Newbery. It is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature

for children published in the preceding year. Location Call # Award Year

Child Fic

A6487o The One and Only Ivan. Katherine Applegate. (Harper) Grades 3-6. When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

2013

YA Fic G211d Dead End in Norvelt. Jack Gantos. (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Grades 5-8. In the author’s semi-autobiographical tale, Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses and assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore.

2012

YA Fic V239m Moon over Manifest. Clare Vanderpool. (Delacorte) Grades 4-7. The daughter of a drifter is sent to live with relatives in 1936 Kansas and hopes to learn about his life.

2011

Child Fic

S7992 When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead. (Random House) Grades 4-9. As her mother prepares to be a contestant on a 1970s game show, a New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

2010

YA Fic G141g The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman. (HarperCollins) Grades 8-12. After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler is raised by the supernatural residents of a graveyard.

2009

YA NonFic

812.6 S344

Good masters! Sweet Ladies! Amy Schlitz. (Candlewick Press) Grades 4-8. A collection of one-person plays featuring characters between the ages of 10 and 15 who live in or near a 13-th century English manor.

2008

YA Fic P314 The Higher Power of Lucky. Susan Patron. (Atheneum) Grades 4-6. An aspiring young scientist tries to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.

2007

YA Fic P450c Criss Cross. Lynn Rae Perkins. (Harper Collins) Grades 6-9. Teenagers in a 1960s small town experience new thoughts and feelings as they search for the meaning of life and love.

2006

Child Fic

K11k Kira-Kira. Cynthia Kadohata. (Atheneum) Grades 4-7. Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in 1950s rural Georgia, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

2005

Child Fic

D545t 2003

The Tale of Despereux. Kate DiCamillo. (Candlewick Press) Grades 3-7. The adventures of Despereux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents.

2004

YA Fic A957cr Crispin: The Cross of Lead. Avi. (Hyperion) Grades 3-7. Falsely accused of theft and murder, a peasant flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

2003

Child Fic

P235s A Single Shard. Linda Sue Park. (Clarion Books) Grades 5-9. Tree-ear, a thirteen year old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters village and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

2002

YA Fic P3673y A Year Down Yonder. Richard Peck. (Dial) Grades 5-9. In 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of the woman.

2001

Child Fic

C975bu Bud, Not Buddy. Christopher Paul Curtis. (Delacorte Press) Grades 4-7. Ten-year-old Bud, escapes a foster home during the Depression and searches for the man he believes to be his father, the renowned band leader, H.E. Calloway.

2000

YA Fic S121h Holes. Louis Sachar. (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) Grades 6 and up. Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish concentration camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

1999

YA Fic H587o Out of the Dust. Karen Hesse. (Scholastic Press) Grades 9-12. In a series of poems, 15-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma

1998

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during the Dust Bowl years of the Depression.

Child Fic

K82v The View from Saturday. E.L. Konigsburg. (Atheneum) Grades 3-6. Four students develop a special bond and their teacher, a paraplegic, chooses them to represent their sixth grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

1997

Child Fic

C987m The Midwife’s Apprentice. Karen Cushman. (Clarion) Grades 6-9. A homeless girl is taken in by a midwife in medieval England and finds her place in the world.

1996

Child Fic

C913w Walk Two Moons. Sharon Creech. (HarperCollins) Grades 3-7. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a trip retracing her route.

1995

YA Fic L921g The Giver. Lois Lowry. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 7-9. Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

1994

Child Fic

R994m Missing May. Cynthia Rylant. (Orchard Books) Grades 6-9. After the death of a beloved aunt, Summer and her uncle leave their W. Virginia trailer in search of a new life.

1993

Child Fic

N333s Shiloh. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. (Atheneum) Grades 3-7. Marty tries to hide a lost beagle from the dog’s real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer and mistreat dogs.

1992

YA Fic S757m Maniac Magee. Jerry Spinelli. (Little, Brown) Grades 4-7. After his parents die, Magee’s life becomes legendary as he accomplishes feats which awe his contemporaries.

1991

Child Fic

L9215n Number the Stars. Lois Lowry. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 7 and up. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous as she shelters a Jewish friend from the Nazis.

1990

Child NonFic

811.54 F596

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. Paul Fleischman. (Harper & Row) Grades 3-8. A collection that describes the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.

1989

Child NonFic

921 L736f Lincoln: A Photobiography. Russell Freedman. (Clarion) Grades 4 and up.Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.

1988

Child Fic

F596w The Whipping Boy. Sid Fleischman. (Greenwillow) Grades 2-6. A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places.

1987

Child Fic

M161s Sarah, Plain and Tall. Patricia MacLachlan. (Harper & Row) Grades 3 and up.When their father invites a mail-order bride to live with them in their prairie home, two children hope she will stay.

1986

YA Fic M1583h The Hero and the Crown. Robin McKinley. (Greenwillow) Grades 7 and up. The daughter of a king and witchwoman wins her birthright with the help of a wizard and a sword.

1985

Child Fic

C623d Dear Mr. Henshaw. Beverly Cleary. (Morrow) Grades 4-7. A 10-year-old writes to his favorite author, revealing problems with his parents’ divorce, a new school, and finding his place in the world.

1984

YA Fic V891d Dicey’s Song. Cynthia Voigt. (Atheneum) Grades 6 and up. An abandoned child finds that new beginnings require love, trust, humor and courage.

1983

Child NonFic

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A Visit to William Blake’s Inn. Nancy Willard. (Harcourt) Grades K-3. A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake’s Inn.

1982

YA Fic P296j Jacob Have I Loved. Katherine Paterson. (Crowell) Grades 5 and up. Feeling a rivalry all her life with her twin sister, Louise finally begins to realize her own potential and gifts.

1981

YA Fic B656g A Gathering of Days. Joan W. Blos. (Scribner) Grades 5-9. The journal of a 14-year-old, kept during the last year that she lives on the family farm in a small NH town.

1980

YA Fic R225w The Westing Game. Ellen Raskin. (Dutton) Grades 5-9. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs.

1979

Child Fic

P296b Bridge to Terabithia. Katherine Paterson. (Crowell) Grades 5-8. The innocence of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia is challenged when a friend meets an untimely death.

1978

YA Fic T244r Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Mildred Taylor. (Dial) Grades 6 and up. The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racism.

1977

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Child Fic

C778g The Grey King. Susan Cooper. (Atheneum) Grades 4-8. The fourth in The Dark is Rising series, where the young hero Will is swept into a quest for a golden harp.

1976

YA Fic H221m M.C. Higgins the Great. Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan) Grades 7-up. Strip mining in the Ohio hills forces a dilemma for a young boy torn between getting his family away or fighting for their home.

1975

YA Fic F793s The Slave Dancer. Paula Fox. (Bradbury) Grades 5-8. A thirteen-year-old boy is held captive on a slave ship and forced to play music for the human cargo.

1974

YA Fic G348j Julie of the Wolves. Jean Craighead George. (Harper & Row) Grades 7 and up. A thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost in Alaska and is befriended by wolves.

1973

Child Fic

013 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. Robert C. O’Brien. (Atheneum) Grades 3-7. A widowed mouse seeks help from formerly-imprisoned lab rats.

1972

YA Fic B993s The Summer of the Swans. Betsy Byars. (Viking) Grades 5 and up. A teenage girl gains insight into herself and her family when her mentally disabled brother gets lost.

1971

YA Fic A739 Sounder. William Howard Armstrong. (Harper & Row) Grades 6 and up. A young African American son of a jailed sharecropper learns to read with the help of a devoted dog.

1970

Child Fic

A376h The High King. Lloyd Alexander. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) Grades 6 and up.The final chronicle of the Prydain series where the forces of good and evil meet.

1969

Child Fic

K82f From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. E.L. Konigsburg. (Atheneum) Grades 3-7. Twelve-year-old Claudia runs away with her brother to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1968

YA Fic H941u Up a Road Slowly. Irene Hunt. (Follett) Grades 4-9. The story is about Julie’s growth, from a 7-year-old brat to a gracious young woman.

1967

Child Fic

T813 I, Juan de Pareja. Elizabeth Borton Trevino. (Bell) Grades 6 and up. The slave of the 17th century Spanish painter Velazquez becomes a painter in his own right.

1966

Child Fic

W847s Shadow of a Bull. Maia Wojciechowska. (Atheneum) Grades 5 and up. Should Manolo become a bullfighter like his father or the doctor he really wishes to be?

1965

Child Fic

N523 It’s Like This, Cat. Emily Cheney Neville. (Harper & Row) Grades 5-9. The story of a boy, the people in his life, and a stray tomcat, in New York City.

1964

YA Fic L566w A Wrinkle in Time. Madeleine L’Engle. (Ariel) Grades 5-9. An adventure in space and time where children seek for a scientist who disappeared while doing secret government work.

1963

Child Fic

S741b The Bronze Bow. Elizabeth George Speare. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 6 and up. 1962

Child Fic

O23i Island of the Blue Dolphins. Scott O’Dell. (Bantam) Grades K-6. A young girl survives and thrives when left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California.

1961

Child Fic

K94 Onion John. Joseph Krumgold. (Crowell) Grades 5 and up. A friendship with the town’s odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes confict between a boy and his father.

1960

Child Fic

S741 The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Elizabeth George Speare. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 5-8. In this 17th century story, 16-year-old Kit Tyler is forced to leave her Barbados home to live with relatives in a Puritan town in Connecticut.

1959

Child Fic

K28 Rifles for Watie. Harold Keith. (Crowell) Grades 7 and up. A Civil War-era story of a farm boy in 1861 who joins the Union Army.

1958

Child Fic

S713 Miracles on Maple Hill. Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen. (Harcourt Brace) Grades 3-7. A rescued POW and his family move to the Pennsylvania countryside to help restore their spirits and their bonds with each other.

1957

Child Fic

L352 Carry On Mr. Bowditch. Jean Lee Latham. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 6 and up. A biographical account of the 18th century astronomer and navigator.

1956

Child Fic

D327w The Wheel on the School. Meindert de Jong. (Harper) Grades 4-7. The children of Shora wonder why storks never come there to bury their nests.

1955

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Child Fic

K94a And Now Miguel. Joseph Krumgold. (Crowell) Grades 5 and up. Story of a boy on a long and hard sheep drive to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

1954

Child Fic

C592 Secret of the Andes. Ann Nolan Clark. (Viking) Grades 4-8. An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.

1953

Child Fic

E79 Ginger Pye. Eleanor Estes. (Harcourt Brace) Grades 3-7. The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and a mysterious man in a yellow hat bring excitement to the Pyes.

1952

Child NonFic

921 F745y Amos Fortune, Free Man. Elizabeth Yates. (Aladdin Books) Grades 3-7. The story of a young African prince who is captured by slavers.

1951

Child Fic

D284d The Door in the Wall. Marguerite DeAngeli. (Doubleday) Grades 3-6. Robin, the crippled son of a lord, proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

1950

Child Fic

H523k King of the Wind. Marguerite Henry. (Rand McNally) Grades 3-7. The adventures of an Arabian stallion and the mute Arab boy who tended him.

1949

Child Fic

D816 The Twenty-One Balloons. William Pene DuBois. (Viking) Grades 5-9. Professor Sherman travels the Pacific in his hot air balloon.

1948

Child Fic

B154 Miss Hickory. Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. (Viking) Grades 4-7. The adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut head.

1947

Child Fic

L573s Strawberry Girl. Lois Lenski. (Lippincott) Grades 4-6. The story of the feud between the Slaters and the Boyers in Florida during the 1900s.

1946

Child Fic

L425 Rabbit Hill. Robert Lawson. (Viking) Grades 4-6. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if new folks in the Big House will plant a garden and thus be good providers.

1945

YA Fic F692 Johnny Tremain. Esther Forbes. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 7-9. A silversmith’s apprentice becomes a messenger in the days before the American Revolution.

1944

Child Fic

V785a Adam of the Road. Elizabeth Gray Vining. (Viking) Grades 4-8. Eleven-year-old Adam travels the roads of 13thcentury England searching for his missing father.

1943

Child Fic

E24 The Matchlock Gun. Walter Dumaux Edmonds. (Dodd, Mead) Grades 3-7. Ten-year-old Edward protects his family with a Spanish gun during the French and Indian War.

1942

Child Fic

S751c Call it Courage. Armstrong Perry. (Macmillan) Grades 5-7. Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to everyone.

1941

Child NonFic

921 B724 Daniel Boone. James Henry Daughtery. (Viking) Grades 5-11. An authentic account of frontier and pioneer life.

1940

Child Fic

E59t Thimble Summer. Elizabeth Enright. (Farrar & Rinehart) Grades 5-11. Garnet is sure a silver thimble she found is magical because her summer has been full of adventures.

1939

Child NonFic

398.22 S483

The White Stag. Kate Seredy. Grades 4-7. The story of the Huns and Magyars long migration from Asia to Europe.

1938

Child Fic

S271r Roller Skates. Ruth Sawyer. (Viking) Grades 4-7. Ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom roller skating around the streets of 19th century New York.

1937

Child Fic

B858 Caddie Woodlawn. Carol Ryrie Brink. (Macmillan) Grades 4-6. The adventures of an 11-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier.

1936

Child Fic

S528 Dobry. Monica Shannon. (Viking) Grades 5 and up. An autobiographical account of the author’s childhood in Bulgaria and wanting to become a sculptor.

1935

Child NonFic

921 A355m

Invincible Louisa. Cornelia Lynde Meigs. (Little, Brown) Grades 7 and up. The story of Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women.

1934

Child Fic

L673y Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze. Elizabeth Foreman Lewis. (Winston) Grades 4-6. Young Fu is apprenticed to Tang, a coppersmith, against the backdrop of 1920’s China.

1933

Child Fic

A728w Waterless Mountain. Laura Adams Armer. (Longmans, Green) Grades 5-8. Younger Brother, a Navaho boy, undergoes years of training in the ancient religion of his people.

1932

Child Fic

C652c The Cat who Went to Heaven. Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth. (Macmillan) Grades 4-6. A little cat brings love and good fortune to a poor Japanese artist.

1931

9

Child Fic

F455 Hitty: Her First Hundred Years. Rachel Lyman Field. (Macmillan) Grades 4-6. Hitty, a doll carved from white ash, travels in Maine and even on a whaler with her owner, Phoebe.

1930

Child Fic

K297t The Trumpeter of Krakow. Eric Philbrook Kelly. (Macmillan) Grades 3-7. A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a secret treasure.

1929

Child NonFic

598.2 M953

Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon. Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton) Grades 4 and up. A carrier pigeon raised by an Indian boy carries messages for the Allies during WWI.

1928

YA Fic J29s Smoky the Cow Horse. Will James. (Scribner) Grades 4-10. The experiences of a horse from his birth, through his rodeo and range work, to his eventual old age.

1927

Child Fic

C555s Shen of the Sea. Arthur Bowie Chrisman. (Dutton) Grades 4-7. A series of fascinating and philosophical Chinese stories.

1926

Child NonFic

398.2 F497

Tales from Silver Lands. Charles Joseph Finger (Doubleday) Grades 4-9. A series of stories about animals, magic, witches and other beings from Central and South America.

1925

Child Fic

H391 The Dark Frigate. Charles Boardman Hawes. (Little, Brown) Grades 5-11. A young man dare not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he joins the crew.

1924

Child Fic

L829 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. Hugh Lofting. (Lippincott) Grades 3-7. The story of the good doctor who learns the language of animals and made adventurous voyages.

1923

YA Fic 909 V261 The Story of Mankind. Hendrik Willem Van Loon. (Boni & Liveright) Grades 7 and up. A world history book, illustrated by the author.

1922

CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD The Coretta Scott King Award was established in 1969 to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination in continuing to work for world peace. It is awarded annually to an author of African descent whose distinguished book promotes an understanding and

appreciation of the “American Dream.” A separate illustrator award was added in 1979. Location Call # Award Year

Child NonFic

973.0496 P655h

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. Andrea Davis Pinkney. (Disney) Grades 5-8. Addressing the appetites of readers "hungry for role models," this presents compellingly oratorical pictures of the lives and characters of 10 African-American men who exemplify a "birthright of excellence."

2013 Author

Pic H8939i I, Too, Am America. Bryan Collier. (Simon & Schuster) Grades K-4. Collier interprets Langston Hughes’ famous poem through the story of Pullman porters.

2013 Illustrator

Child NonFic

973.0496073 N424h

Heart and Soul. Kadir Nelson. (Balzer & Bray) Grades 4-7. A simple introduction to African-American history, from Revolutionary-era slavery through the election of President Obama.

2012 Author

Pic E9291 Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom. Shane W. Evans. (Roaring Brook Press) Grades preschool-3. A family’s flight to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

2012 Illustrator

Child Fic

W7232o One Crazy Summer. Rita Williams-Garcia. (Armistad) Grades 4-7. Two girls spend the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California with the mother they barely know.

2011 Author

Child NonFic

921 P866h Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave. Bryan Collier. (Little Brown) Grades K-4. Dave was an extraordinary artist and potter living in SC in the early 1800s.

2011 Illustrator

Child NonFic

921 R3321 Bad News for Outlaws: Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. (Carolrhoda Books) Grades 4-7. Tells the story of a remarkable African-American hero of the Old West.

2010 Author

Child NonFic

811.52 H893m

My People. Langston Hughes. (Ginee Sea Books) Grades preschool-3. Artful images by the photographer accompany the words of the poet Langston Hughes.

2010 Illustrator

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Child NonFic

796 N424w We Are the Ship. Kadir Nelson. (Hyperion) Grades 4-7. The story of baseball’s Negro League from the 1920s to the decline after Jackie Robinson broke into the majors in 1947.

2009 Author

Child NonFic

811.54 T458b

The Blacker the Berry. Joyce Carol Thomas. (HarperCollins) Grades preschool-3. A collection of poems celebrating African-American identity.

2009 Illustrator

Child Fic

C975e Elijah of Buxton. Christopher Paul Curtis. (Scholastic) Grades 4-7. Story of 11-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton Canada.

2008 Author

Pic B9151 Let it Shine. Ashley Bryan. (Atheneum) Grades Preschool-3. Illustrated versions of three favorite spirituals.

2008 Illustrator

YA Fic D765c Copper Sun. Sharon Draper. (Simon & Schuster) Grades 8 and up. A slave and an indentured servant escape their Carolina plantation and make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

2007 Author

Child NonFic

973.7115 W3621

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led her People to Freedom. Kadir Nelson. (Jump at the Sun) Grades Preschool-3. Describes Tubman’s spiritual first journey.

2007 Illustrator

Child Fic

L642d Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue. Julius Lester. (Jump at the Sun) Grades 4-8. Through flashbacks and shifting points of view, readers travel through time and space to explore decisions, consequences, and judgment.

2006 Author

Child NonFic

323.092 G512r

Rosa. Bryan Collier. (Henry Holt & Co.) Grades 4-7. A picture book tribute to the life of Rosa Parks.

2006 Illustrator

Child NonFic

379.2 M882 Remember: The Journey to School Integration. Toni Morrison. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 3-5. Dialogue and emotion of children who lived through the era of separate-but-equal schooling.

2005 Author

Pic S528e Ellington was Not a Street. Ntozake Shange. (Simon & Schuster) Grades 2 and up. Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the dedicated and important artists and educators who visited there.

2005 Illustrator

YA Fic J67f The First Part Last. Angela Johnson. (Simon & Schuster) Grades 6 and up. Bobby’s carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father.

2004 Author

Child NonFic

398.2 B915be

Beautiful Blackbird. Ashley Bryan. (Atheneum) Grades preschool-2. Colorful birds of Africa ask Blackbird to decorate them with his “blackening brew.”

2004 Illustrator

YA Fic G862b Bronx Masquerade. Nikki Grimes. (Dial Books) Grades 8 and up. Bronx high school students studying the Harlem Renaissance use poetry to explore their lives.

2003 Author

Child NonFic

921 C148g Talkin’ About Bessie. Nikki Grimes. (Orchard Books) Grades K-4. A biography of the first American to receive an international pilot’s license.

2003 Illustrator

YA Fic T244l The Land. Mildred D. Taylor (Phyllis Fogelman Books) Grades 7-up. A biracial child feels caught between two worlds at the end of the Civil War.

2002 Author

Child Fic

M158g Goin’ Someplace Special. Pat McKissack. (Atheneum) Grades K-3. In segregated 1950’s Nashville, a young girl braves obstacles to get to the public library.

2002 Illustrator

Child Fic

W898m Miracle’s Boys. Jacqueline Woodson. (Putnam) Grades 4-6. A boy released from a detention home blames his younger brother for their mother’s death.

2001 Author

Child Fic

C699u Uptown. Bryan Collier. (Holt) Grades K-3. A tour of the sights of Harlem, including brownstones, shopping on 125th street, the Boys’ Choir and a sunset over the river.

2001 Illustrator

Child Fic

C976bu Bud, not Buddy. Christopher Paul Curtis. (Delacorte Press) Grades 4-7. Ten-year-old Bud escapes a foster home during the Depression and searches for the man he believes to be his father, the renowned band leader, H.E. Calloway.

2000 Author

Child Fic

S571i In the Time of the Drums. Kim Siegelson. (Jump at the Sun) Grades 1-4. Mentu, an American-born slave, watches his grandmother leave an insurrection.

2000 Illustrator

Child NonFic

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I See the Rhythm. Michele Wood. (Children’s Book Press) Grades 2-4. Chronicles and poetically captures the mood and movement of African American music.

1999 Illustrator

Child 398.2082 Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales. Virginia 1996

11

NonFic H221 Hamilton. (Blue Sky Press) Grades 3-6. Author

Child NonFic

975.03 M158

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters. Pat McKissack. (Scholastic) Grades 3-8. Customs and traditions from a plantation house and slave quarters.

1995 Author

YA Fic J67 Toning the Sweep. Angela Johnson. (Orchard Books) Grades 5-8. 14-year-old Emmie visits her dying grandmother and learns stories from her family’s past.

1994 Author

Child Fic

R581t Tar Beach. Faith Ringgold. (Crown Publishers) Grades preschool-3. A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home. Based on the author’s quilt painting.

1992 Illustrator

Child NonFic

811.54 G812 Nathaniel Talking. Eloise Greenfield. (Black Butterfly) Grades K-5. Simple poems from an African American’s recollection of childhood.

1990 Illustrator

YA Fic N886fa Fallen Angels. Walter Dean Myers. (Scholastic) Grades 7-12. Follows the story of a Harlem high school graduate spending the year of 1967 as a soldier in Vietnam.

1989 Author

Child Fic

T2445f The Friendship. Mildred D. Taylor. (Dial Books) Grades 4-7. Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper.

1988 Author

Child NonFic

398.232 S837

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters. John Steptoe. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) Grades K-3. One bad-tempered, one sweet—both go before the king who is choosing a wife.

1988 Illustrator

Child NonFic

398.2 H221 The People Could Fly: Book of Black Folktales. Virginia Hamilton. (Knopf) Grades 3-6. Retelling of popular tales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and freedom.

1986 Author

Child Fic

F644p The Patchwork Quilt. Valerie Flournoy. (Dial Books) Grades K-3. Tanya helps her mother and grandmother make a beautiful quilt that tells a story.

1986 Illustrator

Child Fic

C639eg Everett Anderson’s Goodbye. Lucille Clifton. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) Grades K-3. A young boy grieves his father’s death.

1984 Author

YA Fic H221s Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush. Virginia Hamilton. (Philomel) Grades 5-8. Tree resents her mother, who leaves her while working to care for a disabled brother.

1983 Author

Child NonFic

398.2 B915b Beat the Story Drum, Pum, Pum. Ashley Bryan. (Atheneum) Grades 4-7. Five traditional tales from Nigeria.

1981 Illustrator

Child NonFic

812.54 D263 Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass. Ossie Davis. (Viking) Grades 9-12.

1979 Author

Child NonFic

921 K53p Martin Luther King, Jr. Man of Peace. Lillie Patterson (Garrand) Grades 3-6. A biography of the Baptist minister and his leadership role in the civil rights era.

1970 Author

MILDRED L. BATCHELDER AWARD This award is given to the children’s book considered to be the best of the year published originally in a

language other than English. It is named for a former executive director of the Assoc. for Library Service to Children who believed in the importance of great books in translation from all parts of the world.

Location Call # Award Year

YA Fic V951m My Family for the War. Anne C. Voorhoeve. Translator (German): Tammi Reichel. (Dial Books) 2012. Grades 7-12. Franziska is sent to London via the Kindertransport to escape the war in occupied Holland.

2013

Child Fic

D892s Soldier Bear. Bibi Dumon Tak. Translator (Dutch): Laura Watkinson. (Eerdsmans Publishing) Grades 4-7. An orphaned Syrian brown bear is adopted by Polish soldiers during WWII and serves as mascot in Iran and Italy.

2012

YA Fic B7119t A Time of Miracles. Anne-Laure Bondoux. Translator (French): Y. Maudet. (Delacorte) Grades 7-up. A sweeping tale of refugees set across the war-torn, former Soviet Caucasus region and Europe during the 1990s.

2011

Child Fic

T487f A Faraway Island. Annika Thor. Translator (Swedish): Linda Schenck. (Delacorte Press) Grades 3-7. The story of two Jewish sisters finding refuge in Sweden in the summer of 1939.

2010

12

YA Fic U22m Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit. Nahoko Uehashi. Translator (Japanese): Cathy Hirano. (Arthur A. Levine) Grades 7 and up. Balsa, a skilled female warrior, is tasked to protect a young prince from demons and his father’s assassins.

2009

YA Fic M618b Brave Story. Miyuki Miyabe. (VIZ Media) Grades 7-up. In a fantasy adventure, Wataru tries to reach the Tower of Destiny and save his parents’ marriage.

2008

YA Fic M929p The Pull of the Ocean. Jean-Claude Mourlevat. (Delacorte Press) Grades 7-up. Seven brothers in modern-day France flee their poor parents’ farm.

2007

YA Fic H722i An Innocent Soldier. Josef Holub. (Arthur Levine Books) Grades 8-up. A 16-year-old farmhand is tricked into fighting the Napoleonic Wars.

2006

Child Fic

S8761s The Shadows of Ghadames. Joelle Stolz. (Delacorte Press) Grades 3-7. In 19th century Libya, 11-year-old Malika feels constricted by the narrow world of women.

2005

YA Fic 071r Run, Boy, Run. Uri Orlev. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 5-up. Based on the true story of a nine-year-old boy who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.

2004

YA Fic F982t The Thief Lord. Cornelia Funke. (Scholastic) Grades 5-up. Two orphaned brothers find shelter with a street gang in Venice.

2003

Child Fic

G975ho How I Became an American. Karin Gundisch. (Cricket Books) Grades 3-7. The story of a German family of immigrants who settle in Ohio in 1902.

2002

YA Fic C287s Samir and Yonatan. Daniella Carmi. (Arthur A. Levine) Grades 3-7. A Palestinian and Israeli boy become friends in an Israeli hospital, and have an otherworldly adventure together.

2001

YA Fic Q7b The Baboon King. Anton Quintana. (Walker and Co.) Grades 7-up. Son of a Kikuyu mother and Masai father, Morengaru the hunter lives on the edge of his tribal society.

2000

YA NonFic

940.5318 R116

Thanks to my Mother. Schoschanah Rabinovitz. (Dial Books) Grades 7-12. The story of a Lithuanian Jewish girl’s survival from the Holocaust death camps.

1999

YA Fic Y94f The Friends. Kazumi Yumoto. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Grades 5-9. Curious about death, sixth-grade boys spy on an old man, but end up becoming his friend.

1997

YA Fic O71l The Lady with the Hat. Uri Orlev. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 5-9. A Holocaust survivor joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel.

1996

YA Fic R447b The Boys from Saint Petri. Bjarne Reuter. (Dutton) Grades 7-up. In 1942, a group of young Dutch men begin a series of knowingly dangerous protests against the Nazis.

1995

Child Fic

M722a The Apprentice. Pilar Molina Llorente. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Grades 4-7. A 13-year-old works as an artist’s apprentice in Renaissance Florence.

1994

YA Fic O71m The Man From the Other Side. Uri Orlev. Grades 5-9. A Polish family shelters a Jewish man on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto.

1992

YA Fic S299h A Hand Full of Stars. Rafik Schami. (Puffin Books) Grades 7-up. A teenager who wants to be a journalist describes his daily life in Damascus, Syria in his diary.

1991

Child Fic

H331c Crutches. Peter Hartling. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) Grades 4-7. A young boy, searching vainly for his mother in post-war Vienna is befriended by a man on crutches and together they find hope for the future.

1989

Child Fic

N655i If You Didn’t Have Me. Ulf Nilsson. (McElderry Books) Grades 2-5. A young boy finds strength living with relatives on a farm in southern Sweden.

1988

YA Fic F828n No Hero for the Kaiser. Rudolph Frank. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) Grades 7-up. A 14-year-old Polish boy joins a German battalion in WWI and experiences the horror of war.

1987

Child Fic

I58r Rose Blanche. Robert Innocenti. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) Grades 4-8. A German girl’s curiousity leads her to a horrible discovery during WWII.

1986

Child O71i The Island on Bird Street. Uri Orlev. (Houghton Mifflin) Grades 4-6. The story of 1985

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Fic the survival of a Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Child Fic

L745r Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter. Astrid Lindgren. (Viking Press) Grades 3-7. Ronia befriends the son of a rival robber chieftan.

1984

Child NonFic

940.54 M389h

Hiroshima No Pika. Toshi Maruki. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) Grades 7-up. A retelling of a woman’s account during the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

1983

Child Fic

K955b The Battle Horse. Harry Kullman. (Bradbury Press) Grades 5-8. The children on a Stockholm street engage in a modern-day jousting tournament in which the rich are knights and the poor are the horses who bear them.

1982

Child Fic

P382w The Winter when Time was Frozen. Els Pelgrom. (William Morrow & Co.) Grades 4-6. A farm family gives shelter to all in need in Holland during WWII.

1981

Child Fic

S819r Rabbit Island. Jorg Steiner. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Grades 1-up. The adventures of two rabbits who escape from the rabbit factory.

1979 (1)

Child Fic

N898k Konrad. Christine Nostlinger. (Franklin Watts, Inc.) Grades 4-6. An unconventional lady receives a factory-made child in the mail.

1979 (2)

YA NonFic

891.73 L754 An Old Tale Carved out of Stone. A. Linevskii. (Crown) Grades 7-up. 17-year-old Liok is reluctantly given the Shaman’s responsibility of finding fish and game.

1975

Child Fic

I88p Pulga. Siny Rose Van Iterson. (Wm. Morrow & Co.) Grades 5-8. A 15-year-old boy in Bogota, Colombia, escapes the slums with a job as a trucker’s assistant.

1973

Child Fic

Z45w Wildcat Under Glass. Aliki Zei. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) Grades 4-7. The Fascist dictatorship in Greece changes the lives of a 10-year-old and her family.

1970

Child Fic

B111d Don’t Take Teddy. Babbis Friis Baastad. (Charles Scribner’s Sons) Grades 5-8. The book probes the world of a disabled child and his family.

1969

PHOENIX AWARD The Phoenix is awarded by the Children’s Literature Association and given to the author, or estate of the author, whose

book did not win a major award at the time of its publication twenty years earlier. Location Call # Award Year

On Order

Letters from Rifka. Karen Hesse. (Henry Holt & Co. 1992) Grades 4-7. 12-year-old Rivka recounts her journey to America in 1919.

2012

Child Fic

W853m The Mozart Season. Virginia Euwer Wolff. (Henry Holt & Co. 1991) Grades 5-8. Allegra spends her twelfth summer practicing a Mozart concerto.

2011

YA Fic S967sc The Shining Company. Rosemary Sutcliff. (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1990) Grades 7-up. Set in the year 600 in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer and trains with a brotherhood against the invading Saxons.

2010

YA Fic B651w Weetzie Bat. Francesca Lia Block. (HarperCollins, 1989) Grades 9-up. Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her L.A. friends, Dirk, Duck, and My-Secet-Agent-Lover-Man.

2009

YA Fic D553e Eva. Peter Dickinson. (Delacorte Press, 1989) Grades 7-12. After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

2008

YA Fic M216m Memory. Margaret Mahy. (McElderry Books, 1987) Grades 9-up. A 19-year-old teen struggles with the memory of his older sister’s death.

2007

DVD PN 1995.9.A3 H387 2006

Howl’s Moving Castle. Diana Wynne Jones. (Greenwillow, 1986) Grades 7-up. Sophie moves into Wizard Howl’s moving castle and attemps to tame him.

2006

YA Fic O58f A Formal Feeling. Zibby Oneal. (Viking Press 1982) Grades 7-up. A 16-year-old home from boarding school must adjust to a new stepmother.

2002

Spec. Rm. 302 Throwing Shadows. E.L. Konisburg. (Atheneum, 1979) Grades 4-7. 5 short stories 1999

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Coll. of how chance encounters alter people’s lives.

YA Fic C811ia I am the Cheese. Robert Cormier. (Pantheon, 1977) Grades 7-12. The story of a family caught in a government-level corruption case.

1997

Spec. Coll.

Rm. 302 The Stone Brook. Alan Garner. (Collins, 1976) Ungraded. His daughter’s request for a book prompts a stonemason to reveal the secret of the stone to her.

1996

YA Fic Y47d Dragonwings. Laurence Yep. (Harper & Row, 1975) Grades 4-8. Early 20th century life and the San Francisco earthquake are explored in the tale of a Chinese boy.

1995

YA Fic P296o Of Nightingales that Weep. Katherine Paterson. (Crowell, 1974) Grades 5-up. Warrior clans struggle for imperial control of Japan.

1994

Child Fic

B354c Carrie’s War. Nina Bawden. (Lippincott, 1973) Grades 4-7. WWII evacuees spend time in a small Welsh village and one girl makes a regrettable decision.

1993

YA Fic H946so A Sound of Chariots. Molly Hunter. (Harper & Row, 1972) Grades 7-up. A young girl in Scotland during WWI tries to come to terms with her father’s death.

1992

YA Fic G217l A Long Way from Verona. Jane Gardam. (Macmillan, 1971) Grades 7-up. A young girl aspires to be a writer and recounts her life growing up in England during WWII.

1991

YA Fic E57e Enchantress from the Stars. Sylvia L. Engdahl. (Atheneum, 1970) Grades 5-up. Three civilizations from different planets clash.

1990

YA Fic G231s Smith. Leon Garfield. (Pantheon Books, 1967) Grades 5-8. A young pickpocket picks a valuable and mysterious document in 18th century London.

1987

Child Fic

B947q Queenie Peavy. Robert Purch. (Viking Press, 1966) Grades 4-7. A young girl retaliates against bullies who torment her over her emprisoned father.

1986

YA Fic S965m The Mark of the Horse Lord. Rosemary Sutcliff. (Walck, 1965) Grades 7-up. A former gladiator and slave fights for control of the Scottish kingdom.

1985

(THEODOR SEUSS) GEISEL AWARD The Geisel Award is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for

beginning readers published in English in the U.S. during the preceding year. Location Call # Award Year

Pic L84846u Up, Tall, and High! Ethan Long. (Putnam’s Sons) Grades Pre-2. A bevy of birds teach the concepts of up, tall, and high.

2013

Child Fic

S3591t Tales for Very Picky Eaters. Josh Schneider. (Clarion) Grades 1-3. A father tells outlandish stories while trying to get his picky son to eat.

2012

Child Fic

D545bi Bink and Gollie. Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee. (Candlewick) Grades 1-3. Two roller-skating buddies, one tiny and one tall, share comical adventures.

2011

Pic H417bp Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! Geoffrey Hayes. (Raw Junior) Grades Pre-2. Two mice meet their new neighbor and discover she is not as scary as feared.

2010

Pic W699a Are you Ready to Play Outside? Mo Willems. (Hyperion) Grades Pre-2. Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, then must decide what to do.

2009

Pic W699t There is a Bird on your Head! Mo Willems. (Hyperion) Grades Pre-2. There is something worse than a bird on your head – two birds on your head!

2008

Child Fic

K999ze Zelda and Ivy, the Runaways. Laura McGee Kvasnosky. (Candlewick) Grades Pre-3. Zelda and Ivy combat the injustice of cucumber sandwiches.

2007

Child Fic

R994he Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas. Cynthia Rylant. (Simon & Schuster) Grades K-2. Henry and Mudge discover just how fun grandpas can be when they all discover a swimming hole.

2006